Quote from: Akka on December 01, 2013, 01:22:08 AM

Quote from: botolo86 on December 01, 2013, 12:32:53 AM

Quote from: qwerty555 on November 30, 2013, 04:57:43 PM

By switching to the top 500 address list there are a number of wallets with no activity since 2010 and 2011. The probability that these are LOST addresses is high as is the value.

Anyone want to work out the % of coins involved?

This is very interesting on a theoretical point of view. What would you need to get the bitcoins in those wallets? Each address has a public and private key. Where is the public key published? Also, couldn't you just brute-force the discovery of the private key?

If you could just do that, Bitcoin would be worthless.

Of course you can try...

http://miguelmoreno.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fYFBsqp.jpg

Does the person who made the image know that he or she failed to start counting at zero. Nice ball graphic. FAIL